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Published online 3 September 2008 | Nature 455, 15 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455015a
Column: Party of One
Big data: Data wrangling
Collecting and releasing environmental data have stirred up controversy in Washington, says David Goldston, and will continue to do so.
Data sound like a grey, non-partisan and unemotional topic for political discussion. But decisions on what data to collect and release for use in research or policy-making are hardly neutral in their impact.
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